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This city was destroyed in 79 CE after the eruption of Mount Vasuvius.

What is Pompeii

100

Wyoming’s largest lake, it lies right in the middle of a national park.

What is Yellowstone Lake?

100

She had a #1 hit in each year of the 90s—the only singer to do so.

Who is Mariah Carey?

100

In this 1961 movie, Audrey Hepburn had a cat with no name.

What is Breakfast at Tiffany's?

100

This 9-letter word for an insect may have come about because people believed this bug ate uncovered dairy products.

What is a butterfly?

200

After more than 150 years he is still the tallest American President in US History.

Who is Abraham Lincoln.

200

Number of states that touch the Pacific Ocean

What is 5?

200

David Bowie ch-ch-changed his name from Davy Jones to avoid confusion with Davy Jones of this group

Who are the Monkees?

200

This famous PBS bird has a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame

Who is Big Bird?

200

Fittingly, this adjective describing a hit-you-in-the-gut kind of feeling goes back to a Latin word for internal organs.

What is visceral?

300

A Norse explorer thought to have stepped foot on America before Christopher Columbus.

Who is Leif Erickson

300

 The King James Bible refers to it as the Salt Sea.

What is the Dead Sea?

300

John Lennon and Paul McCartney were in this band

Who are The Beatles?

300

Kevin Costner starred in this 1989 film based on the novel Shoeless Joe.

What is Field of Dreams?

300

Though it meant “seasickness” in Latin, this 6-letter word now refers to a more general feeling of sickness

What is nausea?

400

The Berlin Wall fell in November of this year. 

What is 1989.

400

Every little breeze seems to whisper this Alberta lake, so named to honor the daughter of Queen Victoria.

What is Lake Louise?

400

This song was the first to ever be performed in outer space.

What is Happy Birthday?

400

Original wording of the Hollywood sign.

What is Hollywoodland?

400

This Sanskrit word referring to a spoken word or phrase comes from a word for “to think.”

What is mantra?

500

Historians believe the Bubonic Plague started in Europe in this year. 

What is 1347.

500

The smallest and shallowest of the world’s five oceans is this one

What is the Arctic?

500

In the 1970s 2 different songs called “Best Of My Love” topped the charts, one by The Emotions & one by this group.

Who are the Eagles?

500

This Spielberg Holocaust film was based on a book by Thomas Keneally.

What is Schindler's List?

500

From the Greek for “ring”, the first ones were built by the Romans, including one that could hold 250,000

What is circus?

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